“the Embarrassment Of Queues”, Directory-consulate Period

Miniature on ivory signed with a genre scene, a print of which is presented at the Carnavalet Museum under inventory number G 10752, where it is described as follows: Le Bon Genre number 2, “L'embarras des Queues” Two ladies in dresses with long trains are stopped by two young men who hold the train of one of them with a cane. Satire, Incroyables et Merveilleuses. "If the tails of dresses continue to grow longer, we will be forced to enlarge public gardens, or to give up the pleasure of walking. An elegant lady today occupies at least six feet in length: one is forced to stay behind her at this distance, if one does not want to step on her tail. But this inconvenience is for ladies an opportunity to display new graces. Imagine a beauty who feels that one is stepping on her tail; she stops, leans the upper part of her body back, carries the lower part forward, lets her head fall on her shoulder, then throws a glance at the clumsy one in which is painted sometimes coquetry, sometimes an air of protection" (1801) SEE https://www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr/es/node/100451#infos-secondaires-detail Diameter of the miniature 6 cm Frame 11.5 cm on each side.